The OpenHelix Blog

Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment…

• In David Haussler’s group. Neat! RT: @HHMINEWS: RT @miqueleLS: This guy is awesome! Former Apple vice president now turns to a PhD in bioinformatics http://t.co/tLsTv0oK [Mary]
• RT @jmichaelslocum: “… cost of interpreting…  data … is the barrier to use of the data …”Realizing Genomic Medicine — NEJM  http://t.co/mRpJSEZ5 [Mary]
• Giggle. RT @leonidkruglyak: And here I thought human genetics was hard. Easy-peasy. cc @dgmacarthur http://t.co/uqsUI1mv [Mary]
• RT @drbachinsky: Inventing life: patent law and synthetic biology http://t.co/BEEb8QzR via @ConversationEDU [Mary]
• A request by @drgitlin for some genomics graphics and animations led to this response–some nice DNA animation movies: RT @damienmiller:  @drgitlin @WEHI_research TV has beautiful and accurate animations at http://www.wehi.edu.au/education/wehitv/ [Mary]
• NIH announced the launch of a new, free resource, called the Genetic Testing Registry (GTR). Press release is here. [Jennifer]
• Sweet! RT @neiltahiti: and now genomic field guides … http://t.co/5vLlBJaC [Mary]
• RT @Rbaltman: Biomedical Computation Review http://t.co/Lc4pXfbW new website pretty awesome.  Brought to you by #Simbios [Mary]